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weeks leading up to the vote, with a Facebook group dedicated to promoting the Overpaid Executive Tax racking up more than a million likes. “The results show that San Franciscans are concerned about growing economic inequality,” said San Francisco Supervisor and bill sponsor Matt Haney. “The very wealthy are gaining more and more. They’ve gotten much richer during the pandemic, while everyone else has remained stagnant. “We need the wealth that has been generated in the city to be shared more broadly with workers and residents.”
Vaccine on the Horizon?
Hopes soared that the worldwide coronavirus pandemic may soon be over after pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced this week that it completed development on a new experimental vaccine. In the announcement made on Monday, the drugmaker said that the vaccine performed even better than expected in clinical trials, recording a 90% success rate. The vaccine is being developed together with BioNtech in Germany and is based on molecular instructions that cause human cells to produce the coronavirus’ spike protein. As part of clinical trials, 43,000 adults were given either the vaccine or a placebo. They were then purposely exposed to the coronavirus in order to examine whether those given the vaccine had a lower infection rate than those receiving the placebo. In total, 90% of the participants who received the vaccine did not contract the coronavirus as opposed to 10% who received a placebo. The success rate is far higher than the minimum 50% efficacy required by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “Today is a great day for science and humanity,” said Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla, noting that the breakthrough comes with “infection rates setting new records, hospitals nearing over-capacity, and economies struggling to reopen.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the results “extraordinarily good news.” Pfizer has recruited 43,538 participants to-date for stage 3 trials, 38,955 of whom have received a second dose of the vaccine. The study will also evaluate the potential for the vaccine to provide protection against COVID-19 in those who have had prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2, as well as vaccine prevention against severe COVID-19 disease. Pfizer said that it expects to produce 50 million doses by January should the FDA give the vaccine final approval, and another 1.3 billion in 2021. The vaccine will be given to Americans free of charge, with Pfizer receiving $1.95 billion from the federal government to manufacture a billion doses for U.S. citizens by the end of the year. Experts hailed the news but said that more data needed to be available before deciding whether the drug is safe. “The Pfizer team has demonstrated an amazing level of efficiency,” said John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford University, adding that the vaccine has the ability to bring the world back to normal within months.
Hoarding Mail
A New York postal carrier was arrested last week after attempting to cross the border into Canada while carrying 800 undelivered pieces of mail, including at least three absentee ballots. According to authorities, 27-yearold Brandon Wilson was taken into custody after Customs and Border Protection found a box filled with undelivered mail in his trunk near Lake Erie’s Peace Bridge. Wilson first said that the contents belonged to him and his mother but was unable to explain why the mail was addressed to other people. Wilson later changed his story, telling investigators that had mistakenly placed a load of mail in his vehicle in September. He would return a small amount to the USPS facility
